ABANDONED. Sci-fi/Fantasy book including a winged race and a moon goddess

[Lydia]

It has been several years since I have read these books, I believe it is at least 2 books if not three. I do not remember any names, only details about the books.
The winged race lived high up in the mountains and/or trees on the mountains. They were not viewed in a good light by most of the other people in the books. They used magic through singing. Their children were cognizant of what was going outside of the womb prior to birth and the men helped the birth process by singing to the woman and calming the baby so that it could handle the birth. One of the main characters found they were of this race, but had their wings removed. I very clearly remember that toward the end of the book(s) the female main character became pregnant with twins who ended up not liking their father because of an argument before they were born.
I remember disjointed scenes from the books, but don't know that they are really specific enough to help out anymore than this.

[Courtney]

Is it any of the books by Sharon Shinn? The first book starts with in her angel Samaria series.

The rest are , , , and .

[Lydia]

Those do not look familiar.

[Tala]

Reminds me of . It's been a while since I've read it and I'm not sure if it's a series.

[Bryan457]

Seems like there was a winged race at the end of Aurian
And though I have not read it yet, I think they figure prominently in the second book Harp of Winds

[Lydia]

Ok, let me see if I can give a little more detail. I think it is an older book, as I read them approximately 7-9 years ago. There are two man chars, a man and a woman. The man ends up being some kind of god reincarnated, but I don't remember, a sun god, maybe. The woman, while one of the winged race (For some reason it seems like they start with an I) does not have her wings because her step father cut them off of her. Although, it takes her a long time to remember this part of her past. They are a part of some prophecy about saving their world or something. The main storyline in the book is the saving of their world, where they fall into, and them falling in love.

It is really odd, sometimes, the things that stick with you about a book. I can remember the picture I had of her in my head, but for the life of me can't remember any names or places.

[Andria]

The Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass has a winged race called "Icarri." Perhaps?

[Lydia]

I will have to get this book and see. Some of it sounds right, but some of it leaves me wondering. I had looked at this once before, but the description that they give for the book doesn't match what I remember. Reading some of the reviews makes it seem more like it could be this series.

[Andria]

I haven't read it, so I can't help much, but apparently there's a ton of books set in this universe. From the wikipedia article: "Wayfarer Redemption is the name of two trilogies that were released as a single six-book series in the U.S. by fantasy author Sara Douglass, and subdivided into two trilogies: the Axis trilogy, and the Wayfarer Redemption trilogy. This sequence is followed by the Darkglass Mountain trilogy."

Check out the wiki article for Wayfarer Redemption. It goes into detail about the Icarii and they kind of sound like what you described so maybe it's one of the books in the series, if not this one.

[Lucy]

The book where the child's father cuts her wings off is definitely the Axis Trilogy by Sara Douglass. Her name is Azhure and she ends up with long scars down her back that have to be healed. She ends up with the male protagonist, Axis (who's just dumped his first love, Faraday, who then turns into a deer) Think this might have been the second book, Enchanter. Got the Winged race of people, the singing to children in womb, and some kind of weird incest stuff happening among the winged people as well, if that jogs your memory at all?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lydia, are you still looking for this book?

[Lucy]

I know this was years ago but I think this might be “The Cloud Roads”

[El]

The Cloud Roads for Lucy's suggestion.

[Aerulan]

Definitely not The Cloud Roads or any of the other books in the series, almost all the smaller details beyond having wings and living in trees don't fit at all.

ETA: The whole Raksura series are great books though and absolutely worth reading, I just don't want anyone trying them thinking they'll get what's described in the first post, because they'll be setting themselves up to be disappointed.